Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site mhuxv.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!floyd!harpo!eagle!mhuxl!mhuxv!pdt From: pdt@mhuxv.UUCP (tyma) Newsgroups: net.cooks Subject: the whole quote and nothing but the quote Message-ID: <1164@mhuxv.UUCP> Date: Fri, 23-Dec-83 10:44:24 EST Article-I.D.: mhuxv.1164 Posted: Fri Dec 23 10:44:24 1983 Date-Received: Sat, 24-Dec-83 10:49:32 EST Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill Lines: 10 The net must have mangled the ellipsis after the "In vino veritas" quote, which of course suggests that not all the words have been included, but they taught us in Conversational Latin 101 that most ancient Romans we're likely to meet today would understand us anyway. P. S. "Wouldn't be much of a sentence without a verb, would it?" isn't much of one either. :-)